Rail-joint.



Patented Aug. 19, 19W,

WTNESSES INVENTOR ATTORNEY f@ ze* i Specification o Letten Patent.

To H7? Naim/m H may Colmery@ f he e unty ef Hurt-- lcniueetieut, have in :fui nipyeveineuts in Whielfi the foiiowuns in rziii join eti fos' use f emi/ee to improvements ei'tionhiriy Weil adept on with the rail joint shown enti i United Statee fijate ent No. 936,065, {hiftefi August 3d, i909-, which ioint is espeeizi )v iutenieci meieeiie railway uses.

the invention is to prodme e, fnStenu/Y dene@ 'for the ahnt zig enis of miie to .ieuufe ftlnei'uument "re 'in which .nuisent to w un mui eey l ion et" with' iifiietoti-:m to Whioh the mit* tec?, in ordihzuy use may he evenly hiough ti e Seifeiel pznte oone joint, emi Lhefpi'esent invention i es mei'e mitieuiet'lf to means foi unitixug;r the parte that the Complete joint is wh niuv he termed en integr@ Structure. The invention eonsiete 'in fh'e'wing the. abutting ends of, the inte Close eonteet with each other hv hoi me ox' riveting; to 1h" eiiies of the Sphcngj pin/tes temilo Mates, uml vivete or compie whieh wiii sur. :e with which i that in the ein it is; eeieweo home, to the heit or te the emi. 'the head et the d to the fish piatte et ierij" known iu en both heu which t the? Side oi eitheif oi' l, the heurts muy be the Gish pi Fn afiitiei'l, und eonatsue ou, (he piates u'eifief'? feite as eet forth ive ieteved to7 in eeef'i that the eon'uiiete uw, the fish. nietes etnie enti the fue platea, prehitfween the i'en'i loosening; 'the ic me 'that i ense it joint is: au

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forni, und pleveutfi .ing er .moving mieu town. The result ie an even distribution of Strain 'ti'uough nii parte of the joint, 'this z'esuit beingy accomplished in large part by the integrai nature 0il the Structure which insures pefeet joint' o" long life with eai" memhei taking and supporting its part el? the strain.

r)The invention ie illustrate@ in the diziwizigewiguie l being e 'perspective View of :i eompieted joint and Fig. 2, a cose seotion through `the joint teken at the ende of the :abutting miie. 3 shows e uiodieu tien.

The type of miil used may very hugeiy, hut every rail eomprieee ai heed 1 enti a, base 2, united by the vertical web 3, The fish platee l, 5, ht aongeide of the vertieft! web 3,' with their'edeee contat-,ting with the Lunieifsiiie of the heed und the upper eide .of the heee, ne eleaiijv 'eeen in the umwingge. desired, these Afish plates een he provide with lateral edge flanges seen. in Fig, 3, which would `jive e.. geetel Suifece area of eontaet. The sh plates are secured 'to the miie at eithelln side of the vertieal weh so es to lap the joint of the abutting encis of the miie, and me. secured in piece by 'fasteners 6, either boite o11 iivets, the orme: being 'usedusually, which through apertures in the phites and the verticzzi web. These holes are Carefully bored to i'eg'ietey' with each other when the uhut'ti ende of' the weile are tight together. and :2, #iight eti'nin tenfiingg to (huw the ends o the miie together een he estebliehed by hV ving; the izo/ies in the vertieei wehe "vesfy slightly eut of eiinement with the iioies; in the fish plates, the fish plates being' heated to expend them so as to bring the holes inte ahnenient, at which time. the fasteners :we passed thioiiigh the holes and secured in pleeeit will thus he seen that 'when the fish 'plates cool and contract they chew on the festeneie, end u strain produced tending to heid the ends 'of the ruil?, together. deeirfeii, the upper and lower edges of the fish pia es n'uw he welded to the heed and hase of the will.

either by riveting ovei' one end of the rivet, er by turning up the nut on the bolt to securely chimp the Sh plates to the iaii, one oi' both of the heads ef each fastener ae welded to an abutting Contacting surface. En the ease ot the rivet, the weld would be` between the head of the rivet and the side pese u After the fasteners have been driven home,

. the rails and to overlapthe 'ends thereof, se-

of tbe iisll plate. In the ease of the bolt, the weld would occur either between the nut and the bolt or the nut and tbe fish plate, and if desired between tbe bead of the bolt and .the isb plate with which it contacts. This prevents any possible clisen agement of the nut from the bolt, anthat each bolt continuously carries its part of the strain. This additional step in tbe construction of a complete rail joint, and especially one designed for electricl railway uses, constitutes an important advance -in the art, in that it insures vtbe maintenance of other parts of the joint structure to the greatest possible degree by relieving' .them

from undue strain, which would be caused by the failure of any single element of the joint.

l claim as my invention:

l. That improvement in tbe art ofnniting rails and fish plates Which consists 1n plaoing the rails end to end, inalineme'nt Witbeach other, locating fish plates at the sides of curing said sh plates to said rails by beaded fasteners, and Welding a bead of each fastener to a contacting surface; y

2. That improvement in the art of uniting rails and isb plates which consists in .placing the rails end to end, in alinement with each other, locating fish plates at the sides of so insures vgether by nuts on the bolts, and Weldingsaid nuts to the bolts andto the placing the rails end to end, in alinement with each other, locating lish plates at the.y

sides of the rails and to overlap the ends thereof, passing beaded bolts tnrough the' fish plates and rail ends, and drawing the parts together by nuts on the bolts, vand finally in Welding the nuts to the bolts.

4. That improvement in the art of uniting rails and fish plates Which consists in placing the rails end to end, in alinement 'with each other, locating nsh plates at the sides of the rails andto overlap 'the ends thereof,

passing headed bolts through the fish plates and rail ends', and ldrawing the arts A tosfish plates. v

CHESTER GAILOR.

f- Witnesses: I v

ANNE E. QBninn, H. C. REED. 

